The greatest, most absurdly brilliant Everybody Edits story ever is a short fanfic of Everybody Edits written by Arceus64. It features many players and forum users who were active at the time, on a comedic but dangerous adventure to stop an automated level that has gone out of control.
It was posted on the Everybody Edits forums in 2012 here
, though most of the punctuation was corrupted during a forum move.
Examples:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Everybody Edits bots gain minds of their own, with the bot "Explosions Everywhere" causing players' monitors to explode, even when commanded to stop.
- And the Rest: When The Plan is laid out, nine names of the involved people are listed out, followed by "a few others who aren't important in the story".
- Based on a Great Big Lie: The end describes the story as 99.9% fake.
- Battle Discretion Shot: The attempt to infiltrate the World Wide Web headquarters isn't shown, but the aftermath results in two deaths by gunshot and at least one other injury.
- Boom, Headshot!: Rurigok mentions that two of the WWW infiltrators were killed in the "most respectful way possible"—a gunshot to the head.
- The Cake Is a Lie: Everyone is invited to the auditorium for cake, but the cake turns out to be a lie.
- Crazy Enough to Work: An extreme plan to climb to heaven to negotiate with God succeeds.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Implied. A team tries to break into the World Wide Web headquarters, though when they return there is nothing to report except injuries and two deaths.
- Divine Intervention: God intervenes to fix the malfunctioning bots, solving the main conflict.
- Due to the Dead: After Rurigok announces that two troopers died, everybody bows in a moment of silence.
- God: RPGMaster2000 suggests meeting God to negotiate with him. Later on, when Arceus64 meets him, God immediately knows the problem and provides Divine Intervention to solve the problem.
- Heaven: God is in heaven, behind a staircase and a password-protected gate.
- Infodump: The story begins with a fairly lengthy overview of Everybody Edits's history.
- I Was Told There Would Be Cake: Everybody gets invited back to the auditorium for cake. There is no cake.
- Meaningful Name: BuzzerBee and BEE just make buzzing sounds, which bees are known to do.
- Nap-Inducing Speak: Around 83 minutes into Chris's speech, people start falling asleep.
- Red Shirt: When attempting to break into the WWW headquarters for heroic purposes, two end up dead.
- Shout-Out: After everyone is invited to the auditorium for cake, it's stated the cake was a lie, paraphrasing a message from Portal.
- Spell My Name with a Blank: At several points in the story, names of unimportant things are written entirely in X's.
- The Everybody Edits headquarters is located in Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx.
- The characters swim across the Xxxxxx Ocean.
- Arceus64 has a secret project he refers to as Xx xx Xxxxxxxx.
- Take That!: Chris apologizes for high plane bills, explaining that it's "what you get for flying Delta Airlines". Later on, Deetz complains about spending $5,000 on a plane ticket.
- Writers Cannot Do Math: It's stated that "Endless Explosions" has had over five million rounds, which—even at a rate of four rounds every single minute, would still make it older than it was at the time of the story's release.
